Thursday, January 23, 2014

Text messaging an effective way to track sports injuries

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Text messaging is a quick and effective way to get recreational athletes to report injuries, according to a new Australian study.</p><p>Playing recreational sports is a good way to get more exercise, researchers said. But little is known about injuries at that level.</p><p>What's more, injury prevention strategies that work at the elite level aren't necessarily relevant to recreational leagues - which have different types of players, different training loads and a different style of play, according to the study's lead author.</p><p>"Despite making up the broad base of sports participation, community level sport has largely been neglected in much of sports medicine research," Christina Ekegren told Reuters Health in an email. She is a doctoral candidate at Monash University in Melbourne.</p><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/22/us-text-messaging-idUSBREA0L1PU20140122">Keep reading...</a></p>

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